The simplest explanations are often the most appealing, yet they are also often the most incomplete. For a long time, it seemed reasonable to treat all sugars as interchangeable parts of the same ...

Excessive dietary fructose that goes unabsorbed in the gut is linked to increased anxiety and inflammation, according to a ...

Along with glucose, fructose is one of the two primary components of added sugar. Some health experts believe fructose is the worse of the two, at least when consumed in excess. Fructose is a type of ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers from Washington University investigated how dietary fructose indirectly promotes tumor growth through metabolic mechanisms involving the liver. The ...

Fructose has been getting a bad rap lately. Although consuming too much can be bad for your health, those who exercise seem to be protected against some of fructose’s negative health effects. And ...

People with fructose intolerance cannot digest fructose as normal and may experience bloating, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. There are three types of fructose intolerance, not all require treatment.

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. In the last few decades, the food industry has greatly increased its use of fructose to ...